Posts Tagged ‘painting’

Winston Torr: A reversed genesis

Winston Torr

Blog post by Florence Reidenbach – in Berlin; Friday, May 31, 2013.

Societal Crucifixion, Winston Torr’s solo show opened on the 23rd of May and offers the opportunity to discover an impressive body of work. Torr became fascinated with newspapers. Their surface condenses…[read on…]

BLINK // Alex Zelina’s transformed subjects

Blog post by Zuzana Oravcova – in Berlin; Monday, Apr. 29, 2013.

The Slovakian artist, Alex Zelina, is often inspired by controversial social phenomena. His creative process often begins with the selection of a mass-media image he then re-interprets. His most recent work consists of five paintings, acrylic on paper…[read on…]

Korakrit Arunanondchai

Berlin Art Link Studio Visit with Korakrit Arunanondchai
by Lucia Love // Apr. 16, 2013
The streets of Bushwick are grey in the depths of winter. They’re pretty grey in the summer too, but something about the cold really accentuates…[read on]

BLINK // Cave of forgotten paintings

shallow_waters_oil_on_canvas

Blog post by Andrea Ongaro – in Berlin; Saturday, Apr 13, 2013.

The thick layers of Mark Demsteader’s paintings are rough but delicate, and in spite of the unfinished detailing, his images are realistic…[read on…]

Angel Otero

Berlin Art Link Studio Visit with Angel Otero
by Katy Diamond Hamer // Apr. 8, 2013
Historically, painting has a very long lineage ranging from early cave drawings to Abstract Expressionism and Magic Realism. In the process…[read on]

Butterfly out of Eden: Texturing the immaterial

Blog post by Florence Reidenbach – in Berlin; Tuesday, March 19, 2012.

“Butterflies out of Eden”, the current group exhibition at Fellini Gallery, presents eight Paris-based female artists who have left their motherland of Korea to establish themselves in the country of the first ready-mades…[read on…]

Michelle Jezierski

Berlin Art Link Studio Visit with Michelle Jezierski
by Jeni Fulton // Mar. 18, 2013
Michelle Jezierski’s studio is a large, light-filled space in an old industrial building near Hermannplatz, at the southerly tip of the Berlin district of Kreuzberg…[read on]

Rimi Yang: Deconstructing to unify contrasts

Blog post by Florence Reidenbach – in Berlin; Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2012

Rimi Yang’s paintings are a patchwork of abstract expressionist strokes and female figures, of western and eastern imagery, creating an inner sanctum where women of different times and cultures echo each other and meet…[read on…]

Berlin Art Link’s Night & Day Series #3: Eva Maria Salvador & John Kleckner

Eva Maria Salvador & John Kleckner

Article by Angela Connor – in Berlin; Wednesday, Sep. 19, 2012.

Last weekend, Berlin Art Link presented its third exhibition in their ongoing Day & Night series with American artist John Kleckner and Swiss artist Eva Maria Salvador. This exhibition followed on from their first collaborative exhibition Köpfe und Helme (2011) and explored notions of mortality, entropy, regeneration and metamorphosis, whilst engaging in the creative repurposing of recycled materials…[read on…]

Eva Maria Salvador

Berlin Art Link Studio Visit with Eva Maria Salvador
by Alison Hugill // Sept. 10, 2012
Eva Maria Salvador’s remarkable ‘Köpfe’ (Heads) sculptures are hidden away in her Kreuzberg studio, never exhibited as such or seen by more than a select few…[read on]

Enda O’Donoghue

Berlin Art Link Studio Visit with Enda O'Donoghue
by Uwe Goldstein // Sept. 3, 2012
After wandering the labyrinthine corridors of the Atelierhaus Mengerzeile in Berlin’s Treptow district for quite some time, I finally find my way to the spacious studio of…[read on]

Circleculture Gallery Hosts Jaybo’s Running With The Hunted

Jaybo

Blog post by Anna C. Purcell – in Berlin; Friday, July 6, 2012.

When ideas about innovation have too often fallen into the trap of uninventive imitation, Jaybo, a French artist based in Berlin, rebels against convention. He uses the idiosyncracies of his personal history to explore boundaries, and with his asymmetrical, chaoctic pieces, he challenges the defintion of both art and artist.
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